ripsnortingly

comparative more ripsnortingly · superlative most ripsnortingly

1. slangIn a ripsnorting manner; excellently or intensely.

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   Runaway Train is at times a ripsnortingly tense action movie. But it is also, I'm afraid, a metaphor. The Nietzschean Manny ("Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger" is his motto) is none other than existential man in all his rugged intransigence, and that train, bound for freedom, is, well you name it.

   1985, Joseph Becker Phillips, Malcolm Muir, Raymond Moley, Rex Smith, Samuel Thurston Williamson (editors), Newsweek, volume 106, numbers 19-27, page 62